Functional Analyst

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
 

In a nutshell:

The programme you will be involved in consists of two internally developed web applications and a range of additional services (reporting services, data services, business intelligence services) to support our internal customers – the global Eurofins network of laboratories – in their day-to-day sales and analytical services activities for their customers.

The programme is core to Eurofins’ strategy by enabling efficient cross-selling between laboratories. Components of the programme and its data are used by a wide range of Eurofins applications, making it a key programme within the international Eurofins network.

Responsibilities:

Your main objective is to define the functional specifications, in close cooperation with the business analysts and the scrum teams. You will analyse the system in an Agile way, focusing on functional software needs, and translate complex requirements into User Stories that the scrum team can work on.

As a Functional Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating, using Agile principles, with business analysts and architects on functional analysis, solution design, implementation plans, gap and data analysis;
• Writing clear and well-structured specifications (user stories) for bugs and new functionalities, including detailed acceptance criteria;
• Following up on user stories end to end in the scrum team you are involved in, including: user story priority management, preparing and leading various scrum meetings, assisting developers and QA team members during the user story implementation phase;
• Closely interacting with QA team members during acceptance criteria refinement meetings, test case reviews & sprint demo meetings;
• Assisting Business Analysts with UML modelling and service contract creation and review;
• Providing assistance to the third line support of the application;
• Managing bug reports;
• Assisting with the qualification of releases in close cooperation with the programme’s release management team and key stakeholders;
• Managing documentation and ensuring high quality: release notes, second line support release presentations, online help, etc;
• Reporting, including on delays and implementation risks.

Skills: We are looking for a candidate who demonstrates strong communication, a detail-oriented approach, commitment, an analytical and problem-solving mindset, curiosity, and who can produce clear documentation, build relationships, self-manage, and continuously improve.

Education: Engineering degree, Master's in Science, or Bachelor's with relevant experience. Software implementation knowledge is a plus.

Languages: Fluent English is mandatory; other European languages are advantageous.

Experience: Initial experience in software development (functional analyst, business analyst, or project manager). International exposure is beneficial.

Technical Knowledge: Familiarity with Scrum, Service-Oriented Architecture, UML, development tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps), user story/UI mockup development, and SQL is valued.

What we offer:

• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organisation;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are encouraged;
• Responsibilities for key applications within Eurofins;
• In a fast-growing network, successful team members are being offered increased areas of responsibility (within the programme and the Eurofins network);
• Extensive on-the-job coaching;
• Attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.